Adding to recent weeks' increasingly pervasive "holy shit, cops are monsters!" narrative is a recent resurfacing of the case of Dennis Krauss. Krauss was a police officer who, after having his gun taken away due to the fact that he allegedly threatened to anally rape a woman with it while he was in the process of… »8/25/14 12:00pm 8/25/14 12:00pm

Yesterday morning, a gunman opened fire at a high school in Troutdale, Oregon, killing one and injuring many. This marks the 74th school shooting to occur in the United States since 26 people (20 of them children) were murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012 in Newtown, CT. The average number of… »6/11/14 10:40am 6/11/14 10:40am

An Arkansas girl is dead after the father of a boy she and her friends were trying to prank unloaded his gun into a car full of teenagers. Probably not, I'd imagine, as the Founding Fathers intended. »2/18/14 5:30pm 2/18/14 5:30pm

Meet admitted rapist and Idaho State Rep. Mark Patterson (R-Boise). On Sunday, Patterson received notice that his concealed carry license was being revoked because in 2007 and 2012, he lied on his permit application when he said he hadn't pled guilty to rape (Mark Patterson, in fact, did). Patterson is fighting back,… »11/14/13 2:00pm 11/14/13 2:00pm

Last night, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz published a letter on the company's website politely requesting that people stop bringing guns to Starbucks. Why is this even necessary? Because, in case you haven't been following, gun rights activists have become borderline Westboro Baptist-level assholes. »9/18/13 1:40pm 9/18/13 1:40pm

Hey, here's a thing that I hope my neighbors aren't doing! Moved by Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan's proud proclamation that his 10-year-old daughter has her very own pony gun, Twitter's most prolific conservative shriekers are showing their support by posting pictures of their own young female children… »9/26/12 3:30pm 9/26/12 3:30pm

Are you going to the Republican National Convention in Tampa this August? Do you have a handgun that you simply cannot put down? Well, I've got some good news for you, law abiding gun toter: you can go right ahead and handgun until you're blue in the face, because concealed handguns will be allowed in the convention… »5/03/12 5:40pm 5/03/12 5:40pm

While speaking to a crowd at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting, former Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum proudly announced to the St. Louis crowd that he had arranged for his daughter Bella to have a lifetime membership to the organization. »4/13/12 7:45pm 4/13/12 7:45pm

Yesterday, we brought you the "Hot for Teacher" essays that got 56-year-old student Joseph Corlett banned from classes at Oakland University. Now we've talked to him and some former classmates, and the story is even weirder than we thought. »2/17/12 3:00pm 2/17/12 3:00pm

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia thinks that if prosecutors rewarded a man who abused his partner with a misdemeanor sentence instead of a felony conviction, there's no reason to restrict that guy's right to own a gun. That, at least, is what Scalia was arguing on Monday when the
Supreme Court heard an appeal to… »11/13/08 1:30pm 11/13/08 1:30pm